Pope Martin I

Pope Martin I (577-17 July 655) was Pope from 649 to 655, succeeding Pope Theodore I and preceding Pope Eugene I.

Biography
Martinus was born in Todi, Umbria, in the Byzantine Empire (present-day Italy) to a family of Romans, and he was an apocrisiarius (representative) of Catholicism until he was consecrated as Pope in 649. He reigned for six years, and he was the only pope not to be elected by the Emperor. Emperor Constans II of Byzantium had him abducted from the Lateran on 17 June 653 and he died in Chersonesus (present-day Kherson, Crimea, Russia).